Morton Smith and Gershom Scholem, Correspondence 1945-1982
Guy G. Stroumsa
The American historian of ancient religions Morton Smith (1915-1991), had studied with the great scholar of Jewish mysticism Gershom Scholem (1897-1982), while in Jerusalem during the Second World War. After the war, the two started a long, fascinating and at times intense correspondence that ended only with Scholem's death. These letters, found in the Scholem archive in the National Library in Jerusalem, provide a rare perspective on the world and the approach of two leading historians of religion in the twentieth century. They also shed important new light upon Smith's discovery of a letter attributed to Clement of Alexandria referring to a secret Gospel of Mark.
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Année:
2008
Editeur::
Brill Academic Pub
Langue:
english
ISBN 10:
9004168397
ISBN 13:
9789004168398
Collection:
Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture 9
Fichier:
PDF, 1.03 MB
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english, 2008